Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996.
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William Blackwood
Standard Name: Blackwood, William
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Reception | Sir Walter Scott | Publisher William Blackwood
spoke at celebrations held in Edinburgh to mark the centenary of Scott
's birth. |
| Reception | Sarah Grand | In a letter to William Blackwood
written even before the book appeared in volume form, on 5 December 1892, SG
confessed her disappointment with it. It seemed to her such poor work now that I... |
| Textual Features | Margaret Oliphant | Blackwood
becomes a hero of capitalism, on a quest to establish his firm as an empire. His business rivals are presented as insubordinate princes, or as monsters. MO
mentions his beautiful relationship with his widowed... |
| Textual Production | Margaret Oliphant | MO
wrote to ask William Blackwood
for a position on his magazine reviewing novels: this was the beginning of fifty years' work in that capacity. Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press, 1995. 15, 309n8 |
| Textual Production | Caroline Bowles | She began writing out of her love for the craft. Orphaned at an early age and surviving on a small annuity provided by a relation, she later turned to her pen as a means of... |
| Textual Production | Margaret Oliphant | MO
's Annals of a Publishing House: William Blackwood
and His Sons, Their Magazine and Friends (first two volumes), appeared posthumously.Blackwood, Pillams and Wilson “Palmer’s Index to the Times”. Historical Newspapers Online. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
| Textual Production | George Eliot | The previous year young William Blackwood
reported her anxiety and reluctance at the prospect of having the manuscript of this first part taken from her, as if it were her baby. Eliot, George. The George Eliot Letters. Editor Haight, Gordon S., Yale University Press, 1954–1978, 9 vols. 6: 136 |
| Wealth and Poverty | Hannah Lynch | HL
first appealed for financial help to the Royal Literary Fund
in 1895. On 14 February that year Walter Besant
wrote a letter on her behalf which emphasized her ill health and friendless condition; Mabel Robinson |
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